Jury Service - Update

[GordonB]

I posted a week or so ago that I had been called for jury service for the sixth time and I was hoping - nay, praying! - that HM Court Service would take pity on me, especially as this would cause havoc to my business (self employed consultant). Joy, oh joy, this morning's post brought a letter from HMCS excusing me. There may be enough snow outside to prevent me from travelling, currently there's a mini blizzard, it's bloody freezing, and I've just got back from a funeral (my dear old neighbour) but it feels like the sun is shining down on me and there's a song in my heart..............

Gordon

 

[Amheirchion]

They tend to be fairly decent in my experience, though that may depend on the locality.
I got called up for the second time, with dates that would have clashed horribly with my exams at Uni, so I wrote in to explain my circumstances and that I had recently been up anyway. I got let off the hook within days.

 

[Zoiders]

6 times?

Strewth...I would have thought you could get yourself excused on the grounds that making you do it 6 times has undermined your impartialty because you are so completely titsed off with doing it.

 

[TheDoctor]

It certainly does if you're still inside!!

 

[Archie_tect]

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Right then, I'm off to find me a decent Human Rights lawyer, we'll soon have that sorted.
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Probably could claim exclusion from jury service if you are the defendant.

 

[GordonB]

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I have never been called for jury service I quite fancy it, does anyone know if an 8 stretch for armed robbery bars you
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From the HM Courts Service website;

You are not qualified for jury service if you are currently on bail in criminal proceedings.
The following list relates to sentences passed in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. You are not qualified for jury service if:
• you have ever been sentenced to: imprisonment, or a term of detention, of 5
years or more;
or imprisonment for public protection or detention for public protection;
or imprisonment, custody or detention for life;
or an extended sentence under s227 or s228 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003
or s210A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995;
or be detained during Her Majesty’s pleasure or during the pleasure of the Secretary of State.
• you have in the last 10 years: served any part of a sentence of imprisonment
or detention;
or received a suspended sentence of imprisonment or a suspended order for detention;
or been subject to a community order (including community rehabilitation order, community punishment order, community punishment and rehabilitation order, drug treatment and testing order or a drug abstinence order) or any corresponding order under the law of Scotland or Northern Ireland.

 

[Banjo]

Probably could claim exclusion from jury service if you are the defendant.

I believe the victims in murder trials are also excused..